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Letter "N" » Nature
«It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity»
«It?s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It?s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can?t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor?s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.»
«It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.»
Author: David Bailey
(Photographer)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
easing, eating and drinking, for instance, instance, intercourse, occupied, occupy, sexual intercourse
«It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.»
«In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking of a tightrope.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Influence,
Nature
| Keywords:
firmly, in the beginning, tightrope
«It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.»
«In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
invincible, in the midst
«In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
chemistry, famine, machinery, outdo, outdoes, outdone, pestilence, plague, slaughter
«In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Consequences,
Nature
| Keywords:
consequences, punishments, rewards
«In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
Above the Law, buys, corrupted, currents, gild, gilded, offence, shuffled, shuffles, shuffling, the Action
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